How to override 'Page break before'?

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MS Word 2000.
I have two Heading Styles, Heading 1 and 2 in outline format. Both are
'Keep with next' and both 'Page break before'. In my document, a Heading 1
(e.g. Section A) contains several Heading 2's (e.g. Section A.1, A.2, etc).
Also, a Heading 2 usually immediately follows an Heading 1 with no text in
between Heading 1 and 2. Here's what happens:

<Page Break>
Section A
<PB>
Section A.1
blahblah
<PB>
Section A.2
blahblah
<PB>
Section A.3
blahblah

I do not want the PB before A.1, but I definitely want all the other PB's
before Sections A, A.2 and A.3. Any ideas? I guess I could create a third
custom Heading 2 for Section A.1 that has 'Page break before' unchecked, but
I want to avoid the headache of managing yet another Style.

Any help is greatly appreciated!
 
Remove the "Page break before" property as needed for specific headings (as
manual formatting). If you put add a toolbar button (toggle) for this
property, it will be easier.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Thanks Jezebel.

That would mean I would have to manually clear out the checkbox for "first"
Heading 2's then right? i.e. I go manually uncheck for Section A.1, B.1,
C.1, etc. That works, but I'd really love to be able to have Word recognize
when a Heading 2 follows a Heading 1, then don't page break. I'm afraid
manually unchecking the 'page break before' boxes for those headings will
become a maintenance pain.

Any other ideas out there?
 
Since it's obvious from your outline which ones have to be done, the quick
way is clear the checkbox for the first such heading, then select each
subsequent no-page-break heading and press F4.

For future reference, a better method is to define a separate style (eg
"Heading 2 no PB") then set that as Heading 1's "Style for following
paragraph".
 
For future reference, a better method is to define a separate style (eg
"Heading 2 no PB") then set that as Heading 1's "Style for following
paragraph".
Click to expand...

I originally did create a separate style called "Heading 2 first" that had
no PB. What I hadn't thought of was setting "Heading 2 first" as Heading 1's
following Style. I prefer this option over manually clearing PBs because,
although I have an extra style to maintain, Word is auto-selecting "Heading 2
first" for me after Heading 1 and I don't have to remember to manually toggle
the Style.

Thanks for the followup and good tip, I really appreciate it!
-b
 
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